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Let’s reinvent payment by results | Nick O’Donohoehttp://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/19/reinvent-payment-by-results-encourage-early-intervention
Payment by results has been vilified, but it could be adapted and developed to encourage early intervention, a strategy that is essential in tackling problems that affect children, as well as homelessness, mental illness and dementia<p>Early attempts to introduce payment by results into public services may have been met with scepticism, but the coalition government made important progress in developing new commissioning mechanisms that focus on paying for outcomes rather than simply paying for services, and showed a willingness to learn.</p><p>For example, the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/23-million-to-help-homeless-turn-around-their-lives" title="">Fair Chance Fund</a>, set up to tackle homelessness, came with a much more nuanced set of outcomes to trigger payments. It is not enough to know that a young person has entered accommodation. What’s important is that they maintain a tenancy, so additional payments are made after three, six, 12 and 18 months. Payments are also made when that young person enters education or employment, when additional levels of qualifications are gained, or volunteering and employment is maintained over an increasing number of months. Yes, it is payment by results, but not as we knew it.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/19/reinvent-payment-by-results-encourage-early-intervention">Continue reading...</a>Public services policySocietySocial exclusionHomelessnessDementiaMental healthYoung peopleOlder peopleSocial careNHSTue, 19 May 2015 13:00:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/19/reinvent-payment-by-results-encourage-early-interventionPhotograph: /AlamyResearch by the Early Intervention Foundation estimates that the government spends nearly £17bn each year addressing the damaging problems that affect children and young people and could be significantly reduced by early intervention. Photograph: AlamyPhotograph: /AlamyResearch by the Early Intervention Foundation estimates that the government spends nearly £17bn each year addressing the damaging problems that affect children and young people and could be significantly reduced by early intervention. Photograph: AlamyNick O'Donohoe2015-05-19T13:00:06ZLeading questionshttp://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/dec/07/charities.publicsector
New York venture capitalist Rodney Schwartz is the new chair of homelessness charity Shelter<p>My mother and father survived the Holocaust. Mum, aged 11, fled Vienna and spent the war &quot;running&quot;. My father was on the run and was eventually captured and sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp, so homelessness resonates deeply.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/dec/07/charities.publicsector">Continue reading...</a>Voluntary sectorPublic sector careersSocietyHousingHomelessnessWed, 07 Dec 2005 00:46:11 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/dec/07/charities.publicsectorInterview by Mark Gould2005-12-07T00:46:11Z